Several high-profile downtown office buildings are in the running to provide the more than 100,000 square feet of space the state is seeking to relocate two major state agencies now at the Cordell Hull office building.

As of Monday’s deadline, owners of the UBS Tower and Bank of America Plaza had submitted proposals for both requirements, according to people familiar with the matter.

The state’s search for nearly 70,000 square feet of space for the Department of Children’s Services and more than 40,000 square feet of space for the attorney general’s office come as Cordell Hull’s future is under review.

The state’s Department of General Services is awaiting a report from Centric Architecture that would compare that firm’s own study on Cordell Hull with an earlier study by real estate firm JLL, whose recommendation that the state demolish the office building — while at the same time handling lease negotiations for any new space — raised questions about potential conflicts of interest.

Centric’s report, which is expected by the end of next month, should explain the difference between its own $76.9 million estimated price tag for repair and upgrades to bring Cordell Hull and the adjacent Central Services building up to standards and JLL’s earlier $56.5 million figure on which the recommendation of demolition was based.

“That will be evaluated here within General Services, and then a formal recommendation on what to do with the building will be made,” said David Roberson, spokesman for that department.

He said the private space for the Children’s Services and attorney general’s offices is needed regardless of the outcome of re-evaluation of the decision to tear down Cordell Hull.

“No matter what happens to the buildings, the tenants have to move,” Roberson added. “We don’t have enough space in owned buildings to locate them right now.”

The state is looking for leases for either 10 or 15 years, a term some observers consider much longer than typical leases on downtown office space.

Roberson, however, said that’s standard for leases the state seeks in urban areas, adding officials get better rates under longer-term leases. He, however, also said it’s possible some state agencies could move back to the Cordell Hull site if the building is renovated or replaced.

Winning bidders under the two requests for proposals should be notified by late July with nearly 300 Department of Children’s Services and 126 state attorney general’s office employees expected to occupy the new space by April. The new space had to be within a specific boundary of downtown. There’s a health clinic and another small office in the Central Services building that will also relocate later, Roberson said.

Separately, proposals were due to the state on June 11 for 26,850 square feet of leased warehouse and office space for a Children’s Services records department in leased space on Metroplex Drive. The winner will be notified July 9, and the space is expected to be occupied Oct. 15.